What do librarians write about? Find out in this review of the 100 items that Milner faculty and staff have submitted to ISU ReD.
Keeping it 100! Celebrating Milner’s Contributions to ISU ReD
Unit: Scholarly Communication
How do you make a book free for everyone? Unglue.It
Unglue.It is a nonprofit program that works with authors and publishers to place books into the public domain by agreeing on a price and then crowdsourcing the funds to pay the rights holder to issue the book under a Creative Commons license.
Open access publishing options
Authors wishing to make their materials digitally available can often place pre-prints or even published articles on institutional repositories such as ISU ReD, but where does the software and tools used in open access publishing come from?
Wikipedia and libraries: Revolution through collaboration
Milner librarians worked on a collaborative project to learn what resources are necessary to add demographic terms to library catalog records in order to improve information discoverability and access.
Find free scholarly articles using the Unpaywall browser extension
While Milner Library strives to provide all the resources our faculty, staff, and students need for their research and other activities through its holdings and inter-library loan service, a researcher may also wish to quickly check an open access version of an article to see if it meets their needs.
Historic ISNU enrollment ledgers now online
Helen Frances Grennell was 16 years old when she first entered Illinois State Normal University.
Why submit to ISU ReD?
Even though Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD, has existed for several years, many students, staff, and faculty are still unfamiliar with this resource.
Open Access Week: What does it mean?
Open Access Week is celebrated every year to highlight the benefits of making information free, online, and open for others to use.
Milner Library celebrates Open Access Week 2019, October 21-25
Open Access Week 2019 is an international celebration of the benefits of making information free, online, and open for all to use.
Explore resources in the public domain
For researchers wishing to work with public domain materials, or just browse them and see what others have done for inspiration, the Public Domain Review is a welcome resource.
